Bug 290661

Summary:	Mailman should use relative symlink in /etc/smrsh
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Milan Kerslager <milan.kerslager>
Component:	mailman	Assignee:	Jan Kaluža <jkaluza>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	azelinka, ovasik
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	mailman-2.1.9-5.el5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, the /etc/smrsh/mailman symbolic link used an absolute path, which may have not work properly in a chroot environment. This error has been fixed, and the symbolic link now uses a relative path.	Story Points:	---
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Description Milan Kerslager 2007-09-14 11:32:07 UTC

Mailman shoud use relative symlink in /etc/smrsh:

cd /etc/smrsh
ln -s ../../usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman

Comment 1 Tomas Smetana 2007-09-18 06:41:27 UTC

Mailman creates the symlink during installation since 2.0 beta 5 (according to
the changelog) and on all the systems in reach I can see it's there.

Comment 2 Tomas Smetana 2007-10-16 14:29:30 UTC

What version of Mailman doesn't create the link for you?

Comment 3 Tomas Smetana 2007-11-28 13:08:33 UTC

No answer => closing.

Comment 4 Milan Kerslager 2007-11-29 20:31:17 UTC

Mailman shoud use relative symlink in /etc/smrsh instead of absolute link.

Absolute link does not work with chroot (aka Anaconda, rescue mode etc).

Comment 5 Tomas Smetana 2007-11-30 07:46:33 UTC

Oh my... I didn't read the bugreport carefully enough.  Sorry.  You're right of
course.

Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2008-07-21 23:09:15 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".

Comment 13 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-09-21 13:52:17 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Previously, the /etc/smrsh/mailman symbolic link used an absolute path, which may have not work properly in a chroot environment. This error has been fixed, and the symbolic link now uses a relative path.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2010-09-29 15:52:02 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0726.html